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Hello dear TVP friends,

While studying Malcooning's famous and amazing watercolor brushes, I think I've finally found out how to link a specific paper (and it's settings) to a captured or grabbed brush. I wanted to show you this because I haven't found it in the manuals or on this forum...

This is what I do:
Right click on the brush icon > edit


Then on the first line I enter this command line:



tv_paper Hardness 80 Invert 1 Size 0.670000 Angle 0.000000 OffsetX 0.000000 OffsetY 0.000000 FlipX 0 FlipY 0 Active 1 Name "/Cork"

Where the number after "Hardness" stands for the hardness of the paper.
The number after "Size" stands for the percentage for the size of the paper.
And the name after "Name" stands for the name of the selected paper.

It seems to work, but I'm not missing anything here, am I ? (I just wanted to run this by the experts on this forum and save myself from unwanted side effects of this command line. )

afaik, you don't really need to add manually this tv_paper command ,
just set the paper you want, tweak its parameters (hardness, size, ...) in the Paper panel,
set your custombrush and its connections,
then RMB-click in your Custom Panel and "Grab current Tool with Color" ,
it should "buttonize" your custom tool, with the paper information (if anyone active),
and the A/B colors as well, if you don't want to keep the colors information,
RMB edit the button and remove the ColorA and ColorB commands.

See, I'm glad I ran it by you !
I knew there was a simpeler way of setting the paper. Thanks, Otto.